
CogSci 2011 Preview
by Nathaniel Blanco
The 33rd annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society is kicking off next Wednesday. The lab is going to be well represented this year with a couple of talks and posters. Here’s a preview of what we’ll be presenting. Be sure to drop by the talks and posters and give us a hard time (or buy us a beer if it looks like other people are giving us a hard time!). Hope to see you there!
Thurs, July 21
6:45pm -
Posters
(
Track
A
,
Poster
Room)
Poster #1387
–
Does
Category
Labeling
Lead
to
Forgetting?
Nathaniel Blanco, and Todd Gureckis
A closer look at claims that verbally labeling an object impairs memory for it. Sneak peak: probably not.
Fri, July 22
6:45pm - Posters ( Track A , Poster Room)
Poster #1298
-
Modeling
information
sampling
over
the
course
of
learning
Doug
Markant, and Todd
Gureckis
An investigation into how people use their uncertainty to guide sampling decisions during a self-directed learning task and how their decisions change during the course of learning.
6:45pm -
Posters
(
Track
A
,
Poster
Room)
Poster #1059 –
Learning
categories
from
an
intermittent
teacher
John
V
McDonnell, and Todd
Gureckis
A study of how, and under what circumstances, information from labeled and unlabeled items is integrated during category learning tasks where both types exemplars are provided.
Sat, July 23
1:40pm –
Symposium:
Grow
your
own
representations:
Computational
constructivism
(
Track
B
,
Plaza
)
featuring Joseph
Austerweil,
Thomas
Griffiths,
Todd
Gureckis,
Robert
Goldstone, Kevin
Canini,
Matt
Jones
A invited symposium on “constructivist” approaches to human learning (i.e., ones in which new representations are built to interpret the world). Todd is giving a “endnote” talk discussing the various modeling approaches to this question and what they tell us about the mind and brain.
3:10pm –
Timing
and
decision
making
(
Track
F
,
Georgian
Room
)
Talk 603
–
Don’t
Stop
‘Til
You
Get
Enough:
Adaptive
Information
Sampling
in
a Visuomotor
Estimation
Task
Mordechai
Juni,
Todd
Gureckis,
Laurence
Maloney
How much information is enough to make a decision? This talk presents a study of how people sample information in a visuomotor estimation task where each cue requested reduces possible reward. Todd will be presenting.